PEOPLE in Leigh are being encouraged to make themselves comfortable in talking about domestic abuse.

Sitting Right With You is a Greater Manchester campaign which is taking a different approach to domestic abuse by urging people to talk about what they think is and is not appropriate behaviour in a relationship.

It is estimated that one in three women and one in six men experience some form of domestic abuse.

It is not necessarily physical abuse. Controlling what someone wears, their money, where they go and who they talk to can be just as damaging and is abuse.

The yellow sofa featured in the Sitting Right With You campaign will be heading to Leigh town centre next Saturday, December 10, from 10.30am to 4pm.

The roadshow gives residents the chance to talk about domestic abuse and behaviour such as belittling a partner and isolating someone from their friends and family.

Lord Peter Smith, leader of Wigan Council, said: "Domestic abuse can have long-lasting effects on victims and their families, yet many people may not even be aware that what they are experiencing is abuse.

"This campaign highlights behaviours that people may experience, or even display, that are signs of an unhealthy relationship, without having thought of the consequences.

"Hopefully it will help people speak up and question what domestic abuse really is and whether things sit right with them."

Follow the conversation at #SittingRightWithYou or visit sittingrightwithyou.co.uk to find out more. See wigan.gov.uk/domesticabuse for information about the wide range of support and advice that is available to victims of domestic abuse.